Murder suspect released from hospital: Schuyler Mark Camp now in Raleigh prison

The murder suspect in last week's standoff with authorities has been released from the hospital.

Schuyler Mark Camp, 59, faces charges of first degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill law enforcement officers and possession of a firearm by a felon, was released from Carolina Medical Center Monday evening.

Camp is accused of murdering Roger Dale Sisk, of Baker Drive, June 23 and was part of a standoff with deputies that lasted over an hour.

“He was released Monday night and brought to Shelby to be charged, then was sent to central prison in Raleigh for medical treatment,” said Cleveland County Sheriff Alan Norman.

At 12:39 a.m., on Monday, June 23, deputies responded to 6915 Apt. B11 on Baker Drive in Shelby. Deputies were met with gunfire as Camp, who reportedly told authorities he had already killed Sisk, allegedly shot at officers. The deputies returned fire, injuring Camp.

“No deputies were injured,” Norman said in an interview after the shooting.

The standoff ended with Camp surrendering to a Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team.

This is not the first brush with the law that Camp has had. He has had run-ins with authorities since 1972 and has been in and out of prison since 1979.

His most recent conviction was for the murder of his sister Sincere Starr Peterson, in August of 1990.

Along with the murder conviction and multiple incarcerations, Camp has been admitted 28 separate times to institutions for mental problems, according to Cleveland County court house from his 1992 trial.

“He (Camp) is the product of a broken justice system,” Norman said in an earlier interview.

It is unknown when Camp will head to trial and authorities are still trying to put together what happened during that early morning.

“We have several leads on what might have happened,” Norman said. “But, unless the suspect cooperates with us we will never know why.”